Couperin, F - Trois Leçons de Ténèbres
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Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres & Magnificat
Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Daniel Taylor (counter-tenor), Jonathan Manson (viola da gamba), Laurence Cummings (organ)
Theatre of Early Music
Only three of Couperin's claimed nine Leçons survive. They are exquisite works, a rare blend of cool plainchant, French decoration and Italian passion. Countertenors Robin Blaze and Daniel... — More…
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The Artistry of Emma Kirkby
Emma Kirkby (soprano) with Jakob Lindberg (lute), Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord), Anthony Rooley (lute), Agnès Mellon (soprano), John Abberger (oboe), Thomas Georgi (viola d’amore), Lucas Harris (lute) & Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann (cello)
London Baroque, Royal Academy of Music Baroque...
…it's often in the modest-looking pieces that she's at her most compelling. Robert Johnson's Full Fathom Five is 109 seconds of breathtaking stillness and beauty, Böddecker's Natus est Jesu... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2009, Re-issue of the Month
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Couperin, F: Trois Leçons de Ténèbres
RecommendedSandrine Piau (soprano), Veronique Gens (soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
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Building a Library, November 2018
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Leçons de Ténèbres
Emma Kirkby and Agnès Mellon (sopranos), Charles Medlam (bass viol) & Terence Charlston (organ)
Couperin's Leçons de ténèbres are justly celebrated, their intense yet intimate sound-world reflecting both the agony and the ecstasy of these texts. …the crystalline purity of Emma Kirkby's... — More…
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Special offer. Couperin: Trois Leçons de Ténèbres
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo), Lynda Sayce (theorbo), Robert King (chamber organ), Susanne Heinrich (viol)
King's Consort
The two singers complement each other beautifully in the final setting, Kielland's reedy voice, with its somewhat androgynous quality, throwing Sampson's crystalline soprano into high relief... — More…
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Baroque Music - Marais, M. / Machy, S. De / Mouton, C. / Clerambault, L.-N. / Charpentier, M.-A. / Couperin, F.
Pierre Hantai (harpsichord), Fabio Biondi (violin), Rolf Lislevand (theorbo), Jordi Savall (bass viol), H. Smith (lute), Ton Koopman (harpsichord), Blandine Verlet (harpsichord), Michel Chapuis (organ), John Elwes (tenor), Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano), Gerard Lesne (counter-tenor), Joseph Cabre...
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François Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres
Lucy Crowe (soprano) & Elizabeth Watts (sopranos)
La Nuova Musica, David Bates
Crowe here offers an intense and dramatic reading of the first Leçon … Elizabeth Watts takes centre stage in the second setting – her voice plummy and voluptuous … The two join in an impassioned... — More…
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Emmanuel Mandrin conducts Couperin, Charpentier & Lambert
Dorothée Leclair, Juliette Perette & Eugénie Warnier (soloists)
Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr, Emmanuel Mandrin
…an affecting devotional feel, above all in the gently voiced choral items. — More…
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Couperin - Lecons de Tenebres
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Philip Todd (tenor), Raphaël Perulli (viola da gamba), Michel Chapuis (organ)
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